The biggest need in the United Kingdom and Europe isn't new politics, it's new churches.The biggest need for church planters isn't more money, it's good leaders - Benjamin Conway

If we are going to change the spiritual landscape of the United Kingdom then we have to admit and realize revival won't do it. It gets all the Christians fired up on a wave of emotion, that ebbs away as the energy to sustain it runs out. What is needed is a reformation - a total change of how we do church so that we do church the way the first generations of apostles did church. What is needed is new churches - and lots of them. Having just opened the doors on his fifth church plant, Benjamin Conway wants to raise up leaders to step up and step out and help walk in his God-given dream to plant churches all over the United Kingdom, over Europe and over the world. To do this - we need leaders. Strong pastors, confident evangelists, gentle prophets, practical teachers and balanced, humble apostles.

In November 2012, Benjamin was praying and fasting and asking God how to change the nation and God gave him three directives. To start an annual conference that would gather the generals of this generation to equip the church to do the works of ministry. This began in 2013 with our first ever conference. This conference is called Heal the Nations, and more information can be found at www.healthenations.net.

The second instruction was to plant 5 churches in the next five years, which we have begun with churches now in Guildford, Watford and Brentwood, and Croydon. These churches are all growing and healthy, and Benjamin is either directly pastoring them or has appointed pastors who are equipping and raising people and gearing up to plant more churches themselves. The momentum from these steps of faith is still going and we are going to keep opening up new Tree of Life Churches until everyone in the United Kingdom is no more than one hour's drive from a Tree of Life Church. In 2016 we are opening churches in Cambridge and Canterbury.

The final directive was to start aggressively training leaders with an annual leadership conference and a leadership academy that will eventually train leaders who will go and plant churches across the world. Gates of the City is our Leadership training conference and our academy.